Antonio Carlos Jobim

Queen Latifah's Wednesday night concert at the Hollywood Bowl may have been the first installment in this summer’s Jazz at the Bowl series, but it felt an awful lot like a dry run for her upcoming gig as the star of a daytime talk show to launch this fall on CBS. From her first few moments onstage, when she promised the crowd that the evening’s light drizzle was nothing to worry about, since “we’re all gonna get wet together,” Latifah seemed as much host as musician, guiding her audience through what she called a “musical journey” with the ingratiating ease of a television personality. Which, of course, she already is: Not long after...

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